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vol ix no 49 a m sun da Chicago june s 1909 sunday Chicago examiner price five cents Taft ready to veto bill to keep vow on tariff says muc veagh secretary sounds keynote of administration at commer cial club banquet west will be satisfied asserts rule of executive wiil be radically different from roosevelt's secretary of the treasury franklin mac j veagh in a formal speech which bad the ring of presidential approval last night in formed the members of the commercial n club of Chicago tbat president Taft stood e , ready to veto the tariff bill if it failed to li measure up to the president's idea of the party's pledges ,Â£ after congress has done its part saidja mr maeveagh there still remain he views and the big stick of the president j to be reckoned with p aside from this veiled threat of combat tl the address of the secretary of the n treasury wag a promise of coucilation so far as conciliation might go without back sliding from established principles it was delivered at a banquet giveu in honor l of mr maeveagh and secretary of tvar j jacob m dickinson by the commercial club at the congress hotel the two Chicago members of the cab inet were giveu a rousing ovation by the j club members among whom nearly every important business industry in the city c was represented mr maeveagh brought a c message of greeting from president Taft c both the secretaries declared their con . tinued loyalty to Chicago and mr mae veagh said the meanest thing he had * ever done to the city was to take charles Â« d norton from its business and chic j activities to make him assistant secretary of the treasury the tariff problem sec retary maeveagh said will be settled only when the middle west is satisfied think bill will satisfy j ! i venture to predict that the bill will j be such as the people will accept he said the expectations of the people re garding tariff revision are so moderate i and the promises of the platform are so moderate that it seems a very feasible thing both to satisfy the people and carry out the pledges ot the party in every par . ticular what the people expect is what the i protectionist republican party promised in its last year's platform as interpreted by its candidate for the presidency and while it is talking against wind to argue '' that the revision expected is not a re vision downward it would be equally fu tile to say that the revision down was promised to be a revision down and out enthusiastic applause from men repre senting big business interests greeted the keynote of the administration as sounded by mr maeveagh this administration will be conciliatory if you do not ask it to give up a principle or go back on its promises he continued neither of these things will it do this administration will stand by its principles end it will stand by its policies it will as a matter of course be a Taft adminis tration pure and simple will be Taft administration by the latter statement the secretary seemed to imply a great deal the Taft administration he said would be as dif ferent from the roosevelt administration as the roosevelt rule was different from m i ley's the Taft reverence will be for the constitution and laws as they exist regardless ot how he would like to bave them president Taft purposes to wait till laws are changed if he does not find them suited to his ideas of what is best the speaker assured his hearers mr Taft will administer his office within constituted boundaries the effect of this will be to keep the president the leader of his party organization mr Taft is a man of progress and it goes without saying that no great leader of an american party in this day and gen eration can fail to understand the vaiues of independent thought and action in the party itself wherever they are manifested whether in congress or at large if only this independence aims at the party's prog ress and liberalization and if it seeks in and through the party to answer more per fectly the deliberate and wise demands of the nation and you and i must agree that for we cannot escape the conclusion that it might become at any time the duty of any great party leader to create for bis party a new majority and control for progress of nation in this connection while president Taft might be temperamentally inclined toward party regularities and to the en couragement of party unity he would not wish or be able to lose sight of the fact that the republican party has wished to dedicate itself to the furtherance of the higher ideals of the people to the wider and more taried and complete progress of the nation what is more significant and interesting at present mr maeveagh continued is not the actual noninterference but rather the fine disposition the president shows to respect all rights and interests of a homo geneous party of progress-a disposition which can only be interpreted as states manlike conciliation and which it would be a fatal mistake to consider as a chance of actual policy or purpose " after thus holding forth a vague threat extra austin cimrch burned steeple perils homes firebug is suspected first methodist structure at austin destroyed loss 75,000 south blvd church also set ablaze lire which broke n.:t at au car hoal this morning totally destroyed hu first n methodist church ohio street and central avenue austin drove uianv residents of the fashionable neighborhood from their homes and menaced the ohio school which adjoins the burned structure th steeple of the church which was t.i led 111 height towered over the resi dences in the immediate vicinity like a bulling torch and caused a panic people lushed into the street in scanty attire and volunteers assisted in moving household goods and valuables the church was one of the largest and i most fashionable in the city it was erected eight years ago the burned struc ture contained a valuable library and a large pipe organ the total loss will ianiouni to 57.*>.000 the eer tieorge h trevers is acting j pastor of the church in the absence of the ilev 1 h swift regular pastor it has one ot the largest congregations of any church iu thc city the building was a mass of flames when i the lire was discovered by a passerby j by the time the firemen arrived there was i no hop 0 f saving it coincident with the destruction of the first methodist church a tire of unknown origin broke out in the austin tabernacle church 5518 south boulevard at 10 o'clock lasi light which suffered an 800 loss last fall flrebggs were at work among south side churches and thc police express the opinion that incendiarism may mave been responsible tor the coutl;!t;i-a mary garden is blinded through use of hair dye by vance thompson prima donna with optic nerves poi sorted by chemicals used on tresses in grave condition in paris special cable to sunday examiner paris june s mary garden lies to i night iu a dark room unable to bear the slightest rays of light not only are her eyes affected but her whole nervous sys tem is so completely disarranged that it will probably be a long time before she appears on the stage again shortly after her arrival in paris miss garden for some reason took a dislike to her sandy hair au indication of her aber deen origin and stained it with a prepara tion it was not peroxide but some new mixture warranted to give the hair a golden color shot with gleams of red the process was a slow one and neces sitated a number of applications this iu turn brought about slow poisoning evidently the chemicals iu the hair dye were of an unusually searching character for after a few applications miss garden found that her optic nerves were affected 130 coeds flee in panic boiler in basement of willard hall at evanston explodes one hundred and thirty college girls who live in willard hall at northwestern uni versity were giveu a severe fright yester day when the building was shaken by a boiler explosion in the basement the young women ran to the campus in a panic none of the occupants of the dormitory were injured charles olsen the fireman was struck on the head by a flying timber but was not seriously hurt part of a brick wall in the basement was blown down the explosion also caused a panic in the music school building ad jacent the boiler had been out of service for a year 10 slain in prison battle dentil convicts hun for libert and w mi ml six gnardi tifl1s trans-caucasia june 5 in a desperate battle in the prison here to-day eight prisoners and two wardens were killed four wardens and two soldiers were mortally wounded while five men condemned to death were being ta.ken to death cells they overpowered the wardens wounding and disarming them then they ran through the corridors shooting down every one they met finally they were surrounded by a squad of wardens but refused to surrender fighting until they were crushed by re peated volleys in the meantime three other prisoners escaped from their cells and rushed through the corridors in an other direction they were run down by soldiers and shot to death Taft drops alaska trip ilia wife not well enough to vnder take long jonrncy washington d c june 5 president Taft has abandoned his purpose to visit alaska this summer he does not think mrs Taft will be well enough to under take the journey and he will not go with out her representatives tawney and cushman conferred with the president to day with reference to an appropriation for the president's trip congress has been asked to appropriate 25.000 less will be i needed if the alaskan trip is abandoned ; the president thinks be will be able to go to the seattle exposition mrs Taft is i growing stronger six balloons off in national race lively start from indianapo \ lis north wind may land them in alabama fine weather for pilots f v coey expects the Chicago to j make long flight and win handicap event indianapolis ind june 5 under a cloudless sky and in a variable ground i breeze that settled in the afternoon into a i ten-mlle-an-hour blow toward the south c indianapous made its debut this afternoon 1 as a national aero center i to-night six great racing balloons the new york st louis university city ' cleveland hoosier and indiana which . i tugged at their anchorage of sandbags all j , day slowly filling under perfect climatic j , conditions are sailing to the southward ] each trying lor the honor of the national championship and the trophy of the in diana aero club allan r hawley new york banker and broker and third vice president of the aero club of america who has been placed in charge of the indianapolis races arrived at the grounds at noon with bim were charles j glldden of boston well known in aero as well as in auto racing circles who was selected as official handicapper and carl fisher promoter of the meet uncertain air currents major h b herschy the government : weather bureau representative who attend ed the races received his special reports from toledo st louis des moines cleve land columbus and other weather stations at 4 o'clock after studying them he said if the bal loons should stay up between two and three thousand feet they w-onld probably land in alabama if they should go up two or three miles he said they might catch currents that would take them northeast he said to-nigbt that the un certainty of the air currents made it diffi cult to tell how far the balloons would travel to-night but be did not think that the directions would change soon and that the balloons would begin to be reported in the south at sunrise to-morrow the great national race started at 5 - o'clock according to programme the green ish yellow new york with a hollaud forbes of new york as pilot and cap tain c b harmon of new york as as sistant was the first to go the pearl white indianapolis with carl fisher and captain g l bumbaugb was started five minutes later the white st louis iii ! with a b lambert of st louis as pilot and h honeywell of st louis as assistant got a good start at 5:10 o'clock ! cleveland off with a rush r l five minutes after the st louis iii ' was out of the way the golden cleveland j - cut from the same piece of canvas that j â– was used in the united states which won | the great international race in paris three j : years ago started with a h morgan of ; i cleveland as pilot and j h wade jr of â– cleveland as assistant the hoosier with captain baldwin of j : new york and charles walsh of mount l vernon n y got away at 5:20 o'clock â– and the chocolate-colored university city - with john berry of st louis as pilot and i paul mccullough also of st louis as assistant left at 5:25 o'clock this was e the last one to leave â€¢ preceding the national event three bal ) loons sailed at 3:45 p m in the handicap event the contestants were the ohio ' dr h w thompson salem o pilot and j blanke aid the indianapolis dr 1 goethe link pilot and j r irwin aid the Chicago c a coey and aid of chi cago 0 the ohio the smallest balloon to enter [. descended at nashville ind about fifty â€¢- miles south of here at 7 o'clock and her a pilot returned to indianapolis coey in e the Chicago is expected to try for a long a distance sail e all the balloons in the national event 1 were provisioned for a trip of several a days chicagoan wins at yale w l ferris of oak park scores as toet and orator new haven conn june 5 walter lewis ferris of oak park 111 to-day won two of the leading awards at the com mencement of the yale divinity school he was awarded the albert cook prize of ii for the best poem by a vale student the title of his poem was the ancient manuscript he also won the mersiek commencement prize in the divinity school award for the best address by a member of the graduating class ferris is a grad uate of beloit college of the class of 1003 the prize consists of foo 190,000,000 deep gulf canal advised waterway found practicable l only dispute being on when i to begin work randolph for quick work says state body will nowbend efforts to get 20,000,000 bond issue members of the deep waterwavs com t mission appointed by congress to investi gate the feasibility of the scheme for a deep waterway from Chicago to new or leans have reported favorably on the project the board of engineers appointed to in vestigate the plans for wie waterways from an engineering standpoint informed the commission that eo far as engineering was concerned the waterway was perfectly practicable the estimated cost of a canal fourteen feet deep from Chicago to the mouth of the mississippi is 190,000,000 according to isham randolph secretary of the state deep waterway commission the report which the national commission has just made means that the deep water way project will be boomed stronger than ever and a bill authorizing the expenditure of the 0,000,000 bond issue for the build ing of the channel from lockport to utica 111 will be prepared and presented to the legislature next winter there is only one thing which stands in the way of the deep waterway project according to friends of the plau that is whether it is economical to build the canal at the present time considering the bulk of traffic between Chicago and st louis and Chicago and new orleans differ on time for construction , the members of the deep waterway commission are not of one mind on this point some of the members of the com mission have stated that they are of the opinion tbat the expenditure of the mil lions necessary for the building of the waterway is not advisable at this time they contend tbat the traffic between Chicago and st louis docs not warrant the waterway at present and that the j mississippi klver can for some time to j come adequately handle all of the water , traffic from st louis to the gulf the deep water coin mission has made its recommendations as follows , that a depth of fourteen feet is practl j cable from Chicago to la salle and from j la salle to st louis that it is possible to secure all the year i round fourteen feet from st louis to new orleans this being considered possible now ouly seven or eight months in the year that the estimated cost of the improve ment from Chicago to st louis is j0 000.000 â€¢ that the estimated cost from st louis to [ new orleans is 8100,000,000 ' now up to dickinson . this whole question is now to be passed . upon by secretary of war dickinson and brigadier general marshall chief of eugl . j neers in view of the fact that the original . i surveyors and the revising board have i passed favorably on the splendid scheme it would appear that secretary of war ,' dickinson would make a favorable report when he transmits the documents maps s of survey estimates of cost etc to congress it can be stated now bow , ever tbat there will be some opposition to the secretary in the engineer corps here the report by the engineers is what we .' have been anticipating said isham kan .' dolph last night we knew that their re ". port v as practically sure to be favorable .' the state waterway commission will now bend us efforts toward getting a bill . through the legislature which will allow ' us to go ahead with the work we have mapped out the members of the state commission w^nt to begin as soon as possible and ' build the channel from lockport to utica . it is estimated that it will take about l'0 ' 000.000 to complete th's portion of the work out of this amount however will come the cost for the construction of three 3 electric light power stations opposed to lorimer methods s the state commission is utterly opposed to the methods which senator lorimer has been using in regard to deep waterway leg r islat'on senator lorimer's bill which was n recently killed in the senate and which i provided for the appointing of a coiiiniis 1 slon of seven members to go to washington if and lobby for the bill is something wuich t is entirely unnecessary the commission '' would have to have 100,000 and this 1 money would have to come out of the gen sr eral fund 1 we will have a bill ready for the leg m islature this winter there will prob ably be a special session ordered for the " discussion and consideration of the deep waterway project and the whole matter will be thoroughly thrashed out there is no use iu wasting money every dol lar that is voted by the state and by the government should be devoted exclusively to the building of the waterway as far as the economical features of the canal are concerned that is a matter of individual opinion Chicago is the greatest manufacturing center in the world and its volume of manufacturing is grow ing every yenr by leaps and bounds by the time the canal is completed and ships from all parts of the world begin com ing into Chicago there will be no ques tion as to its worth and usefulness says report means a boom lyman e cooley who is an ardent sup porter of senator lorlmer'b deep water way projects declared last night that be was extremely gratified to learn that the count di moise wed by priest in new york his wife flees first picture printed in Chicago of the countess bettini di moise who teas miss hattie burcliell of elmira new york miss garwood's wooer mar ried to hattie burchel el mi ra girl in 1883 man's past is exposed countess and their son go to ' country to avoid no toriety new york june 5 all doubt as to whether count bettini di moise whose i marriage to miss isabella garwood of this eity was halted by the intervention of the state department at washington would have become a bigamist were the cere : i mony performed was removed to-day when < it was found that he has a wife and child still residing iu this city owing to the notoriety brought about by i the international complication the coun tess di moise left suddenly for the coun try with her brother but her friends and those of her husband were prone to j uigbt to talk freely of their affairs these interviews brought to light these salient facts he married hattie buehell a prominent young society woman of elmlra at mar tinelll's hotel sixteenth street and fifth avenue in 1ss3 the ceremony was performed by a ro man catholic priest the affair was a private one but one of the most conspicuous witnesses was the editor of eeo italiano then the leading ; italian newspaper the conple had a child a year after 1 their marriage and lived apparently hap 1 pily together until five years ago when the count went to spain to attend a 1 medical conference from which he never ' returned 1 b bertinl proprietor of the hotel bell ' campidoglio who is president of many in fluential italian societies for several years bead of the italian hospital and one of the most prominent of his countrymen iu ' america had known the alleged count for ' thirty years ' in 1ss3 be said the doctor had an office in mcdougal street at that time a high-class residential street he lived at my hotel at times and ' when in may the year i have mentioned my wife had begun to suffer from neu ralgia i sent her to see him she knew e him well and had great confidence in his r ability for he was at that time one of ; the most talked of of all physicians in 1 new york . announced coming wedding 5 no sooner than she had reached his ' door he grabbed her by the hand and " asked that he be congratulated for he was to be married in forty-eight hours mr bertinl went along to relate that his wife asked if his bride was to be an ital ian the doctor said she was an american woman tbat he had met at a ball lu fifth 9 i avenue il the following day the physician saw miss farrar wed 3 versions given one report says she married scotti may 10 he calls it a german joke new vokk june 5 what is the truth regarding the engagement or marriage of mis gerardine farrar and signor antonio scotti within the last twenty-four hours three entirely different stories from three differ ent sources have appeared in new york to-day it was positively stated that the marriage had taken place on may 10 prior to the departure of the singers for europe in london the parents of miss farrar announced that the wedding would take place shortly iu paris also in london signor scott denied even the engagement and said lt is one of those german jokes the information regarding the marriage of the two singers was vouchsafed by friends of miss farrar in new york when they learned that an erroneous report had been cabled from the other side to the effect that they were to be married iu the church of the madeleine in paris reports of the engameut of miss farrar and signor scotti were frequent during the last session of the metropolitan but they were denied as often as they crept into print the reports however it is well known were well founded the re port of au engagement was denied even as late as the day the two sailed on the kronprinz wilhelm last month signor scotti first met miss farrar in berlin where she was a favorite at the ttoyal opera house while ho also was singing there when she came to iier own country three years ago he began to pay ardent court to her and his atteiitiba to her has been noticeable ever since at first his suit was obscured by tlio splendid conquests of miss farrar tc whom it was at one time reported forty eight germans including noblemen offi cers and distinguished artists had offered their hearts anil fortunes from an un founded report that the german crown prince was paying her attentions miss far rar exacted an apology from i berlii editor london june 3 once more a repon that antonio scotti the famous barytone and miss geraldine farrar are i > be mar rled at an early date is denied and thi tlme most unequivocally it is one of those german jokes eman atlng from berlin said signor scotti l night the fact is that i shall be nude niauv obligation and i am sure mis farrar will also if the report is stanjpei as utterly lacking in truth or foniidntio of any kind 1 the constant recurrence â– â– â– : this stor.i i puts the in an embarrassing position 1 i always seeing uugallant in i man lo doni such reports but what else can 1 do ii view of the circumstances i 1 an snre thai x,isv fair â€¢ â€¢ io is jus as friendly with me as are many otbe famous singers with wboii 1 associate 1 professionally or socially is much an i ; noved at the false report -'â– ] have received cablegrams on -- i ' i friends connected with the v " â– ; â€¢â– opera house asking wlietb-r cobg lions are in order and 1 ive cabled - denial to a!l_j them , __ __ _ _. air shot in vein by cleminson to kill wife is charge accused physician knew such an injection in the arm would stop action of heart police argue in new theory 4 no trace of poison is found so plans are on to exhume the body to prove doctor a slayer by unique method mysterious woman sought by a detective as the last link to convict the prisoner re gardless of mode of death the latest theory of the manner in which mrs norah lane morgan cleminson met her death one week ago is that her husband dr haiflane cleminson now in the county jail and formally charged with the murder of his wife injected air into one of the large veins in the woman's arm au injection of air into an artery or a rein would cause death it would cause an embolism of the heart the heart ac tion would be stopped unless an investigation looking especially toward a death agency of this kind were started no trace of the mysterious cacse â€¢ probably would be discovered say pby slclans there are many theories advanced as to why an injection of air might have caused the death of mrs cleminson who wu found dead by her husband's side in their home at 418s wayne avenue last sunday a minute examination by coroners physician keinhardt of the organs of the dead woman failed to discover the align est traces of poison this in itself s unusual in cases of death by poison some trace of the drug generally can be de tected even without an examination the coroner's physician is used to poisoning cases yet the death of mrs cleminson and the examination that he made batded him he asked that two of the best experts in the city be given the organs to examine no trace of poison found professor walter haines and dr w r le count are now at work so far as is known they have not found any traces of poison dr cleminson is a physician he pre sumably knew of the effect tbat an in jection of air into an artery or a vein might have he knew in all probability should he have wished to have killed his wife as is charged that an injection of air would leave almost no trace what is more possible or plausible say the police than for the young doctor to i have injected air into the arm of his sleep f ing wife and then to have concocted a ' story of burglars that would lead the in vestigation away from the point that he e was most anxious not to have it begun should the chemical analysis of mrs cleminson's heart lungs liver and kidneys y i that the experts are making fail to reveal e any traces of poison the case against dr e | cleminson will not fall to the ground by any means said captain thomas c kane l ' of the sheffield avenue police station who e is iu charge of the investigation last night we would direct the experts to examine ii the heart to see if it showed traces of air '. haviug been injected and then we would exhume the body to look for the puncture e that might have been made should this r means of causing death have been used 1 theory good says coroner e it is possible and more than possible u that air might have been used to kill mrs cleminson said coroner hoffman the r theory will be carefully investigated as g will i;ll others connected with this mys t ter ! ous case t dr w e schroeder professor of chem , s teal surgery at northwestern university a a_d chief surgeon of the wesley hospital e said last night air iu sufficient quantity injected in a e | blood vessel would result in embolism and s j cause instant death the cause of death " | would not easily be brought out by a posr i mortem examination meanwhile captain kane and his detec e uvea are waiting upon the report of the ,Â° experts who are making the analysis of i the organs of the dead woman this prob 1 ; ably will not be finished for a week or , i ten days r with or without a trace of poison being in i found captain kane believes that with the exception of a single link the chain ,.'. of evidence that will prove dr clemin ' sun guilty of his wife's murder has been : " forged ,. the mtesiug link in captain kane's â– '- chain of evidence ii believes to be the '.'' â– other woman in the ease ,.\ â– while it iris been proved conclusively n â€¢ that there were raauy women to whom the j urbane the polished the natty and suave l i.r clemiusoti paid his devotions the po |> lee believe thai tlie woman in the case ln i bus yet to Â»< foun 'â– dociov was infatuated i c i i<j i e have â– â€¢ good ides of this worn jan's identity she does not they say live id i hicago but hi a town in southern hi _( i uols she had been in the eabit of payincfl its i Chicago two or three times â– i week and always on the occasion ot tfccji continued on 2d page^^l umn , continued on 4th page 4th flluann continued on 6th page 4th column j weather forecast 1 jfaft Chicago and~vtcinity partly #| f.'-ij cloudy sunday probably showers v ". ? v and warmer monday easterly t :$ \ : a winds sunday shifting to southerly w w monday w i free lake trip coupon and riverview coupon will be found on page two of this section if juiiii-m hnw"l__"*"l u j im j w j a fji 1 hi 1 1 i fe m a^il~a-.--_w

vol ix no 49 a m sun da Chicago june s 1909 sunday Chicago examiner price five cents Taft ready to veto bill to keep vow on tariff says muc veagh secretary sounds keynote of administration at commer cial club banquet west will be satisfied asserts rule of executive wiil be radically different from roosevelt's secretary of the treasury franklin mac j veagh in a formal speech which bad the ring of presidential approval last night in formed the members of the commercial n club of Chicago tbat president Taft stood e , ready to veto the tariff bill if it failed to li measure up to the president's idea of the party's pledges ,Â£ after congress has done its part saidja mr maeveagh there still remain he views and the big stick of the president j to be reckoned with p aside from this veiled threat of combat tl the address of the secretary of the n treasury wag a promise of coucilation so far as conciliation might go without back sliding from established principles it was delivered at a banquet giveu in honor l of mr maeveagh and secretary of tvar j jacob m dickinson by the commercial club at the congress hotel the two Chicago members of the cab inet were giveu a rousing ovation by the j club members among whom nearly every important business industry in the city c was represented mr maeveagh brought a c message of greeting from president Taft c both the secretaries declared their con . tinued loyalty to Chicago and mr mae veagh said the meanest thing he had * ever done to the city was to take charles Â« d norton from its business and chic j activities to make him assistant secretary of the treasury the tariff problem sec retary maeveagh said will be settled only when the middle west is satisfied think bill will satisfy j ! i venture to predict that the bill will j be such as the people will accept he said the expectations of the people re garding tariff revision are so moderate i and the promises of the platform are so moderate that it seems a very feasible thing both to satisfy the people and carry out the pledges ot the party in every par . ticular what the people expect is what the i protectionist republican party promised in its last year's platform as interpreted by its candidate for the presidency and while it is talking against wind to argue '' that the revision expected is not a re vision downward it would be equally fu tile to say that the revision down was promised to be a revision down and out enthusiastic applause from men repre senting big business interests greeted the keynote of the administration as sounded by mr maeveagh this administration will be conciliatory if you do not ask it to give up a principle or go back on its promises he continued neither of these things will it do this administration will stand by its principles end it will stand by its policies it will as a matter of course be a Taft adminis tration pure and simple will be Taft administration by the latter statement the secretary seemed to imply a great deal the Taft administration he said would be as dif ferent from the roosevelt administration as the roosevelt rule was different from m i ley's the Taft reverence will be for the constitution and laws as they exist regardless ot how he would like to bave them president Taft purposes to wait till laws are changed if he does not find them suited to his ideas of what is best the speaker assured his hearers mr Taft will administer his office within constituted boundaries the effect of this will be to keep the president the leader of his party organization mr Taft is a man of progress and it goes without saying that no great leader of an american party in this day and gen eration can fail to understand the vaiues of independent thought and action in the party itself wherever they are manifested whether in congress or at large if only this independence aims at the party's prog ress and liberalization and if it seeks in and through the party to answer more per fectly the deliberate and wise demands of the nation and you and i must agree that for we cannot escape the conclusion that it might become at any time the duty of any great party leader to create for bis party a new majority and control for progress of nation in this connection while president Taft might be temperamentally inclined toward party regularities and to the en couragement of party unity he would not wish or be able to lose sight of the fact that the republican party has wished to dedicate itself to the furtherance of the higher ideals of the people to the wider and more taried and complete progress of the nation what is more significant and interesting at present mr maeveagh continued is not the actual noninterference but rather the fine disposition the president shows to respect all rights and interests of a homo geneous party of progress-a disposition which can only be interpreted as states manlike conciliation and which it would be a fatal mistake to consider as a chance of actual policy or purpose " after thus holding forth a vague threat extra austin cimrch burned steeple perils homes firebug is suspected first methodist structure at austin destroyed loss 75,000 south blvd church also set ablaze lire which broke n.:t at au car hoal this morning totally destroyed hu first n methodist church ohio street and central avenue austin drove uianv residents of the fashionable neighborhood from their homes and menaced the ohio school which adjoins the burned structure th steeple of the church which was t.i led 111 height towered over the resi dences in the immediate vicinity like a bulling torch and caused a panic people lushed into the street in scanty attire and volunteers assisted in moving household goods and valuables the church was one of the largest and i most fashionable in the city it was erected eight years ago the burned struc ture contained a valuable library and a large pipe organ the total loss will ianiouni to 57.*>.000 the eer tieorge h trevers is acting j pastor of the church in the absence of the ilev 1 h swift regular pastor it has one ot the largest congregations of any church iu thc city the building was a mass of flames when i the lire was discovered by a passerby j by the time the firemen arrived there was i no hop 0 f saving it coincident with the destruction of the first methodist church a tire of unknown origin broke out in the austin tabernacle church 5518 south boulevard at 10 o'clock lasi light which suffered an 800 loss last fall flrebggs were at work among south side churches and thc police express the opinion that incendiarism may mave been responsible tor the coutl;!t;i-a mary garden is blinded through use of hair dye by vance thompson prima donna with optic nerves poi sorted by chemicals used on tresses in grave condition in paris special cable to sunday examiner paris june s mary garden lies to i night iu a dark room unable to bear the slightest rays of light not only are her eyes affected but her whole nervous sys tem is so completely disarranged that it will probably be a long time before she appears on the stage again shortly after her arrival in paris miss garden for some reason took a dislike to her sandy hair au indication of her aber deen origin and stained it with a prepara tion it was not peroxide but some new mixture warranted to give the hair a golden color shot with gleams of red the process was a slow one and neces sitated a number of applications this iu turn brought about slow poisoning evidently the chemicals iu the hair dye were of an unusually searching character for after a few applications miss garden found that her optic nerves were affected 130 coeds flee in panic boiler in basement of willard hall at evanston explodes one hundred and thirty college girls who live in willard hall at northwestern uni versity were giveu a severe fright yester day when the building was shaken by a boiler explosion in the basement the young women ran to the campus in a panic none of the occupants of the dormitory were injured charles olsen the fireman was struck on the head by a flying timber but was not seriously hurt part of a brick wall in the basement was blown down the explosion also caused a panic in the music school building ad jacent the boiler had been out of service for a year 10 slain in prison battle dentil convicts hun for libert and w mi ml six gnardi tifl1s trans-caucasia june 5 in a desperate battle in the prison here to-day eight prisoners and two wardens were killed four wardens and two soldiers were mortally wounded while five men condemned to death were being ta.ken to death cells they overpowered the wardens wounding and disarming them then they ran through the corridors shooting down every one they met finally they were surrounded by a squad of wardens but refused to surrender fighting until they were crushed by re peated volleys in the meantime three other prisoners escaped from their cells and rushed through the corridors in an other direction they were run down by soldiers and shot to death Taft drops alaska trip ilia wife not well enough to vnder take long jonrncy washington d c june 5 president Taft has abandoned his purpose to visit alaska this summer he does not think mrs Taft will be well enough to under take the journey and he will not go with out her representatives tawney and cushman conferred with the president to day with reference to an appropriation for the president's trip congress has been asked to appropriate 25.000 less will be i needed if the alaskan trip is abandoned ; the president thinks be will be able to go to the seattle exposition mrs Taft is i growing stronger six balloons off in national race lively start from indianapo \ lis north wind may land them in alabama fine weather for pilots f v coey expects the Chicago to j make long flight and win handicap event indianapolis ind june 5 under a cloudless sky and in a variable ground i breeze that settled in the afternoon into a i ten-mlle-an-hour blow toward the south c indianapous made its debut this afternoon 1 as a national aero center i to-night six great racing balloons the new york st louis university city ' cleveland hoosier and indiana which . i tugged at their anchorage of sandbags all j , day slowly filling under perfect climatic j , conditions are sailing to the southward ] each trying lor the honor of the national championship and the trophy of the in diana aero club allan r hawley new york banker and broker and third vice president of the aero club of america who has been placed in charge of the indianapolis races arrived at the grounds at noon with bim were charles j glldden of boston well known in aero as well as in auto racing circles who was selected as official handicapper and carl fisher promoter of the meet uncertain air currents major h b herschy the government : weather bureau representative who attend ed the races received his special reports from toledo st louis des moines cleve land columbus and other weather stations at 4 o'clock after studying them he said if the bal loons should stay up between two and three thousand feet they w-onld probably land in alabama if they should go up two or three miles he said they might catch currents that would take them northeast he said to-nigbt that the un certainty of the air currents made it diffi cult to tell how far the balloons would travel to-night but be did not think that the directions would change soon and that the balloons would begin to be reported in the south at sunrise to-morrow the great national race started at 5 - o'clock according to programme the green ish yellow new york with a hollaud forbes of new york as pilot and cap tain c b harmon of new york as as sistant was the first to go the pearl white indianapolis with carl fisher and captain g l bumbaugb was started five minutes later the white st louis iii ! with a b lambert of st louis as pilot and h honeywell of st louis as assistant got a good start at 5:10 o'clock ! cleveland off with a rush r l five minutes after the st louis iii ' was out of the way the golden cleveland j - cut from the same piece of canvas that j â– was used in the united states which won | the great international race in paris three j : years ago started with a h morgan of ; i cleveland as pilot and j h wade jr of â– cleveland as assistant the hoosier with captain baldwin of j : new york and charles walsh of mount l vernon n y got away at 5:20 o'clock â– and the chocolate-colored university city - with john berry of st louis as pilot and i paul mccullough also of st louis as assistant left at 5:25 o'clock this was e the last one to leave â€¢ preceding the national event three bal ) loons sailed at 3:45 p m in the handicap event the contestants were the ohio ' dr h w thompson salem o pilot and j blanke aid the indianapolis dr 1 goethe link pilot and j r irwin aid the Chicago c a coey and aid of chi cago 0 the ohio the smallest balloon to enter [. descended at nashville ind about fifty â€¢- miles south of here at 7 o'clock and her a pilot returned to indianapolis coey in e the Chicago is expected to try for a long a distance sail e all the balloons in the national event 1 were provisioned for a trip of several a days chicagoan wins at yale w l ferris of oak park scores as toet and orator new haven conn june 5 walter lewis ferris of oak park 111 to-day won two of the leading awards at the com mencement of the yale divinity school he was awarded the albert cook prize of ii for the best poem by a vale student the title of his poem was the ancient manuscript he also won the mersiek commencement prize in the divinity school award for the best address by a member of the graduating class ferris is a grad uate of beloit college of the class of 1003 the prize consists of foo 190,000,000 deep gulf canal advised waterway found practicable l only dispute being on when i to begin work randolph for quick work says state body will nowbend efforts to get 20,000,000 bond issue members of the deep waterwavs com t mission appointed by congress to investi gate the feasibility of the scheme for a deep waterway from Chicago to new or leans have reported favorably on the project the board of engineers appointed to in vestigate the plans for wie waterways from an engineering standpoint informed the commission that eo far as engineering was concerned the waterway was perfectly practicable the estimated cost of a canal fourteen feet deep from Chicago to the mouth of the mississippi is 190,000,000 according to isham randolph secretary of the state deep waterway commission the report which the national commission has just made means that the deep water way project will be boomed stronger than ever and a bill authorizing the expenditure of the 0,000,000 bond issue for the build ing of the channel from lockport to utica 111 will be prepared and presented to the legislature next winter there is only one thing which stands in the way of the deep waterway project according to friends of the plau that is whether it is economical to build the canal at the present time considering the bulk of traffic between Chicago and st louis and Chicago and new orleans differ on time for construction , the members of the deep waterway commission are not of one mind on this point some of the members of the com mission have stated that they are of the opinion tbat the expenditure of the mil lions necessary for the building of the waterway is not advisable at this time they contend tbat the traffic between Chicago and st louis docs not warrant the waterway at present and that the j mississippi klver can for some time to j come adequately handle all of the water , traffic from st louis to the gulf the deep water coin mission has made its recommendations as follows , that a depth of fourteen feet is practl j cable from Chicago to la salle and from j la salle to st louis that it is possible to secure all the year i round fourteen feet from st louis to new orleans this being considered possible now ouly seven or eight months in the year that the estimated cost of the improve ment from Chicago to st louis is j0 000.000 â€¢ that the estimated cost from st louis to [ new orleans is 8100,000,000 ' now up to dickinson . this whole question is now to be passed . upon by secretary of war dickinson and brigadier general marshall chief of eugl . j neers in view of the fact that the original . i surveyors and the revising board have i passed favorably on the splendid scheme it would appear that secretary of war ,' dickinson would make a favorable report when he transmits the documents maps s of survey estimates of cost etc to congress it can be stated now bow , ever tbat there will be some opposition to the secretary in the engineer corps here the report by the engineers is what we .' have been anticipating said isham kan .' dolph last night we knew that their re ". port v as practically sure to be favorable .' the state waterway commission will now bend us efforts toward getting a bill . through the legislature which will allow ' us to go ahead with the work we have mapped out the members of the state commission w^nt to begin as soon as possible and ' build the channel from lockport to utica . it is estimated that it will take about l'0 ' 000.000 to complete th's portion of the work out of this amount however will come the cost for the construction of three 3 electric light power stations opposed to lorimer methods s the state commission is utterly opposed to the methods which senator lorimer has been using in regard to deep waterway leg r islat'on senator lorimer's bill which was n recently killed in the senate and which i provided for the appointing of a coiiiniis 1 slon of seven members to go to washington if and lobby for the bill is something wuich t is entirely unnecessary the commission '' would have to have 100,000 and this 1 money would have to come out of the gen sr eral fund 1 we will have a bill ready for the leg m islature this winter there will prob ably be a special session ordered for the " discussion and consideration of the deep waterway project and the whole matter will be thoroughly thrashed out there is no use iu wasting money every dol lar that is voted by the state and by the government should be devoted exclusively to the building of the waterway as far as the economical features of the canal are concerned that is a matter of individual opinion Chicago is the greatest manufacturing center in the world and its volume of manufacturing is grow ing every yenr by leaps and bounds by the time the canal is completed and ships from all parts of the world begin com ing into Chicago there will be no ques tion as to its worth and usefulness says report means a boom lyman e cooley who is an ardent sup porter of senator lorlmer'b deep water way projects declared last night that be was extremely gratified to learn that the count di moise wed by priest in new york his wife flees first picture printed in Chicago of the countess bettini di moise who teas miss hattie burcliell of elmira new york miss garwood's wooer mar ried to hattie burchel el mi ra girl in 1883 man's past is exposed countess and their son go to ' country to avoid no toriety new york june 5 all doubt as to whether count bettini di moise whose i marriage to miss isabella garwood of this eity was halted by the intervention of the state department at washington would have become a bigamist were the cere : i mony performed was removed to-day when < it was found that he has a wife and child still residing iu this city owing to the notoriety brought about by i the international complication the coun tess di moise left suddenly for the coun try with her brother but her friends and those of her husband were prone to j uigbt to talk freely of their affairs these interviews brought to light these salient facts he married hattie buehell a prominent young society woman of elmlra at mar tinelll's hotel sixteenth street and fifth avenue in 1ss3 the ceremony was performed by a ro man catholic priest the affair was a private one but one of the most conspicuous witnesses was the editor of eeo italiano then the leading ; italian newspaper the conple had a child a year after 1 their marriage and lived apparently hap 1 pily together until five years ago when the count went to spain to attend a 1 medical conference from which he never ' returned 1 b bertinl proprietor of the hotel bell ' campidoglio who is president of many in fluential italian societies for several years bead of the italian hospital and one of the most prominent of his countrymen iu ' america had known the alleged count for ' thirty years ' in 1ss3 be said the doctor had an office in mcdougal street at that time a high-class residential street he lived at my hotel at times and ' when in may the year i have mentioned my wife had begun to suffer from neu ralgia i sent her to see him she knew e him well and had great confidence in his r ability for he was at that time one of ; the most talked of of all physicians in 1 new york . announced coming wedding 5 no sooner than she had reached his ' door he grabbed her by the hand and " asked that he be congratulated for he was to be married in forty-eight hours mr bertinl went along to relate that his wife asked if his bride was to be an ital ian the doctor said she was an american woman tbat he had met at a ball lu fifth 9 i avenue il the following day the physician saw miss farrar wed 3 versions given one report says she married scotti may 10 he calls it a german joke new vokk june 5 what is the truth regarding the engagement or marriage of mis gerardine farrar and signor antonio scotti within the last twenty-four hours three entirely different stories from three differ ent sources have appeared in new york to-day it was positively stated that the marriage had taken place on may 10 prior to the departure of the singers for europe in london the parents of miss farrar announced that the wedding would take place shortly iu paris also in london signor scott denied even the engagement and said lt is one of those german jokes the information regarding the marriage of the two singers was vouchsafed by friends of miss farrar in new york when they learned that an erroneous report had been cabled from the other side to the effect that they were to be married iu the church of the madeleine in paris reports of the engameut of miss farrar and signor scotti were frequent during the last session of the metropolitan but they were denied as often as they crept into print the reports however it is well known were well founded the re port of au engagement was denied even as late as the day the two sailed on the kronprinz wilhelm last month signor scotti first met miss farrar in berlin where she was a favorite at the ttoyal opera house while ho also was singing there when she came to iier own country three years ago he began to pay ardent court to her and his atteiitiba to her has been noticeable ever since at first his suit was obscured by tlio splendid conquests of miss farrar tc whom it was at one time reported forty eight germans including noblemen offi cers and distinguished artists had offered their hearts anil fortunes from an un founded report that the german crown prince was paying her attentions miss far rar exacted an apology from i berlii editor london june 3 once more a repon that antonio scotti the famous barytone and miss geraldine farrar are i > be mar rled at an early date is denied and thi tlme most unequivocally it is one of those german jokes eman atlng from berlin said signor scotti l night the fact is that i shall be nude niauv obligation and i am sure mis farrar will also if the report is stanjpei as utterly lacking in truth or foniidntio of any kind 1 the constant recurrence â– â– â– : this stor.i i puts the in an embarrassing position 1 i always seeing uugallant in i man lo doni such reports but what else can 1 do ii view of the circumstances i 1 an snre thai x,isv fair â€¢ â€¢ io is jus as friendly with me as are many otbe famous singers with wboii 1 associate 1 professionally or socially is much an i ; noved at the false report -'â– ] have received cablegrams on -- i ' i friends connected with the v " â– ; â€¢â– opera house asking wlietb-r cobg lions are in order and 1 ive cabled - denial to a!l_j them , __ __ _ _. air shot in vein by cleminson to kill wife is charge accused physician knew such an injection in the arm would stop action of heart police argue in new theory 4 no trace of poison is found so plans are on to exhume the body to prove doctor a slayer by unique method mysterious woman sought by a detective as the last link to convict the prisoner re gardless of mode of death the latest theory of the manner in which mrs norah lane morgan cleminson met her death one week ago is that her husband dr haiflane cleminson now in the county jail and formally charged with the murder of his wife injected air into one of the large veins in the woman's arm au injection of air into an artery or a rein would cause death it would cause an embolism of the heart the heart ac tion would be stopped unless an investigation looking especially toward a death agency of this kind were started no trace of the mysterious cacse â€¢ probably would be discovered say pby slclans there are many theories advanced as to why an injection of air might have caused the death of mrs cleminson who wu found dead by her husband's side in their home at 418s wayne avenue last sunday a minute examination by coroners physician keinhardt of the organs of the dead woman failed to discover the align est traces of poison this in itself s unusual in cases of death by poison some trace of the drug generally can be de tected even without an examination the coroner's physician is used to poisoning cases yet the death of mrs cleminson and the examination that he made batded him he asked that two of the best experts in the city be given the organs to examine no trace of poison found professor walter haines and dr w r le count are now at work so far as is known they have not found any traces of poison dr cleminson is a physician he pre sumably knew of the effect tbat an in jection of air into an artery or a vein might have he knew in all probability should he have wished to have killed his wife as is charged that an injection of air would leave almost no trace what is more possible or plausible say the police than for the young doctor to i have injected air into the arm of his sleep f ing wife and then to have concocted a ' story of burglars that would lead the in vestigation away from the point that he e was most anxious not to have it begun should the chemical analysis of mrs cleminson's heart lungs liver and kidneys y i that the experts are making fail to reveal e any traces of poison the case against dr e | cleminson will not fall to the ground by any means said captain thomas c kane l ' of the sheffield avenue police station who e is iu charge of the investigation last night we would direct the experts to examine ii the heart to see if it showed traces of air '. haviug been injected and then we would exhume the body to look for the puncture e that might have been made should this r means of causing death have been used 1 theory good says coroner e it is possible and more than possible u that air might have been used to kill mrs cleminson said coroner hoffman the r theory will be carefully investigated as g will i;ll others connected with this mys t ter ! ous case t dr w e schroeder professor of chem , s teal surgery at northwestern university a a_d chief surgeon of the wesley hospital e said last night air iu sufficient quantity injected in a e | blood vessel would result in embolism and s j cause instant death the cause of death " | would not easily be brought out by a posr i mortem examination meanwhile captain kane and his detec e uvea are waiting upon the report of the ,Â° experts who are making the analysis of i the organs of the dead woman this prob 1 ; ably will not be finished for a week or , i ten days r with or without a trace of poison being in i found captain kane believes that with the exception of a single link the chain ,.'. of evidence that will prove dr clemin ' sun guilty of his wife's murder has been : " forged ,. the mtesiug link in captain kane's â– '- chain of evidence ii believes to be the '.'' â– other woman in the ease ,.\ â– while it iris been proved conclusively n â€¢ that there were raauy women to whom the j urbane the polished the natty and suave l i.r clemiusoti paid his devotions the po |> lee believe thai tlie woman in the case ln i bus yet to Â»< foun 'â– dociov was infatuated i c i i